Welcome, Hello and welcome to Pokémon Episode 6 Talkback
Gamely's Gym Challenge. Schmidt, it's been a while since
we did one of these, so I'm a little foggy, which is probably
for the best because then the challenges will be all like new
and stuff. Great.
So yeah, welcome. Anyone else have any greetings
they want to say Trevor? I'm excited to reflect on this
the game. Master for sure give me had a
bit of reputation for. For the I was crushing gym
challenges, yeah. Which, like offensively rock is
excellent, so that makes sense. Yeah, exactly.
Yeah, we. Left also only type that beats
everything was that we would say also if we had like an ice type
trainer would be kind of similar, right?
Like offensively, you just kind of go nuts.
You got hurt, right? More or less looked at and taken
care of and you dropped. Off as long as you prepared
defensively, a lot of the times it was like you just let the the
offense of your type take care of it.
Yeah, made. A complete recovery and you had
one bad matchup, right? It was Raleigh.
It was it, right? It was Raleigh, yeah.
And says. And at that point, you're so far
along, it's like. Yeah, at that point, like I had
at a ghost rock type, which was really strong against him.
Yeah, no, I have not. It's covered for that weakness
and then. Everything else was neutral or
better. I, I had like a bug psychic
rock. I completely like neutralized
it. So I was like, yeah, this is
you. Would think very manageable.
The Oracle's kind of always got its eyes closed.
It's small little turtle, it's standing on the counter and it's
pewing smoke. It's just kind of staring at
you. And I love how uncentered the
text is. I know we said that last time,
but I just can't get over. It it is still really funny.
It's like some extra space between Jim and Gimli, too.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's awesome.
Do you? Do you intend to release him
into the wild, or do you want to make him your partner?
I would love to make him my partner.
I was like, do I have to convince him?
Yeah, you got to do something. OK, You could just ask.
Like you don't have to convince, but like, yeah, it's like you
got to do something. I know you've been through a lot
buddy, but would you like to come on this journey with me?
Rule of persuasion first Gimli Catch right after Trevor.
Yep, it. Is grateful to you for saving
it. You will not just have Trevor
for your gym challenge. Catch.
Yeah, ready for action, basically.
Oh, and I even fucked up. It's transparent on the tail.
Do you see that shit? Man, this was so scar.
That's awesome. It's classic.
That's awesome. I never watched these facts.
I don't think I realized that you were adding all this shit on
the YouTube video. Eventually there was just so
much stuff to add. I stopped doing it.
And then Kira took over and I was like, don't worry about it,
it's YouTube. Grateful for all of our YouTube
listeners still. But it's definitely like an
audio podcast. Like, yeah, it's a lot of work
to do stuff it. Was like, damn, all these affect
all these like added pictures that you're putting in for these
YouTube videos. It's like they.
Just I always feel ambitious, dude, man, it's true.
Split up. So Schmidt kind of challenged
you to the top. Never capture that YouTube
audience enough. You know, we didn't get you
Yeah, 1 sided. No, I'm delighted that we have
the YouTube listeners that we have because it's a.
That's true, yeah. Would just be kind.
Of hospitable. It's really just kind of a shot
in the. Dark It's a hard platform to
push for that. Yeah, if we're not making
videos, yeah, I wasn't expecting anything, but in fact we have
over 1000 subscribers is sick. That's really cool.
One day. Yeah, that.
Was. Insane so you sleep pretty well
by the time I will give it to YouTube.
Whenever I do a scheduled release, YouTube always
publishes first and Spotify will lag like 15 minutes sometimes.
That's insane. So props to YouTube for that
one. I.
Don't understand how functions like that like lag.
I don't either. I don't get it.
I'm not sure like I pre scheduled it like I don't what
are we doing? I don't I don't understand.
I'm sure someone knows the answer, but she's just super
overjoyed. And you walk out of the Pokémon
Center. You climb up the ladder to get
on the wooden walkways to get to the gym, and you pass Schmidt,
who's walking, and he seems to have What's up?
Hi, what's up? Blizzler says.
I say you're on. I didn't have streamer mode on
and so that just blasted the the episode Talkback which is
awesome. I'm glad.
Hell yeah. You're welcome, listeners.
I'm also realizing that I have discord ping, so I need to
figure out how to turn that off. Drops you off.
They're just getting the authentic experience.
Yeah, that's every time Grace enters the call.
Yeah. Yes, we get glizzied.
It's true. Yeah, you get glizzied.
So watch out there you. Go leave.
When I get glizzed, he puts a little scribble on.
It. Not.
Watching out to some big red doors and he says, well then on
you go. You you open the doors and
you're greeted to what seems to be a power plant of some sort.
There is lots and lots of tall wind turbines sprouting out.
I definitely like wrote somewhat of a script for describing the
environment, but I always tried to riff on it and make it a
little bit different for each one of you.
Even though, like it didn't matter because you all only
heard it once. I was like it has to be unique.
It's for you, though. Yeah, it was.
It's for the listeners. It's for the listeners.
It's true. It is for the listeners.
You got to think about the listeners.
You still we do it all for you guys.
It's true, yeah. Man.
Yeah, we probably. Didn't just do we have at this
point, yeah. At this point we had like 30.
We, we had 30 for like a year, which we, I'm so grateful to all
of them. But a year and a half, actually,
City Gym will be testing very funny categories.
We're gonna be testing how the Internet works.
And then for whatever reason, what Spotify pushed us like
nobody's business. Yeah, yeah, exactly.
I'm your first challenge and I'll be testing you on your.
Power. Yeah, it goes simple.
We're gonna have a double battle.
OK, so. Very convenient for Gimli.
You have acquired your second Pokémon so this will be good.
You were going to. Yeah it was.
Gimme the last. Yeah.
Gimli was the last trainer to get 2 Pokémon so that checks
out. He sends out two Pokémon, one
of. Them Would it have been double
if I only had one guy? This.
One has one. No, I would have changed it.
I don't know what I would have done, but I would have figured
it out. I'm not sure.
A little woodpecker. Imagine just the 2D head.
I take him says all right, let the ballot.
I did change woodpecker, the non Mercro bird for each trainer I
think, but they have the same moves and stats.
I just changed the flavor of it. Hey, Trevor.
No. OK, so yeah, you found a picky
Peck. I think someone had a Spiro
collides. There's a tail of freshly
hardened carapace that belongs to Trevor and just does not
reach it at all. And disappointingly picky pack
just kind of flops back over into position next to Marcro.
Now it's Marcro's turn. Marcro is instructed to go for a
pursuit, this time into your new friend Toidal, and does a 21
hit. Yes.
Great Toidal and it's first battle ever with.
Gambling this always make me laugh like every time I know you
have to ask like yeah does a 21 hit of of course it does like it
feels like Adm tradition like every.
DM I've ever had. It is.
They just always ask. Right.
I just feel obligated. To do it.
No, but it was like I was playing at a different table
like this past weekend, and it was the same thing of like, hey,
just like a 23 hit Yeah, dog on level 2.
It feels like an unwritten. It's fun.
We should since there's so many dice involved, but let's just
double the overall damage. How does that seem?
That seems fair. Like I got five, yeah, four or
something like that. Reactions are pretty great,
though, especially because like that table even is like a lot of
newer players, so they're like pissed off that you would even
ask. Yeah, yeah, they.
Used to it, but that's what everyone does, yeah.
For some reason, it's always the same.
Yeah, I was like, Oh my God, are you OK?
It's not an unreasonable cut, no no, sometimes.
You need to check like they had mage armor or something funny
like I don't. Know yeah but you're also
looking as Adm you're looking at like some different sheets and
stuff it's. Like, yeah, yeah, yeah.
You let them use a rocket. Yeah, totally.
Into Mercro, OK. At this.
Moment. It still always makes me feel
that way. We can't take this much more
Mercro. It's time for a secret strategy
and Mercro is going to use Sucker Punch as a reaction
before turbo pin attack and that's a 13 I think.
Torkel. I wasn't capturing video with
OBS. I'll just do it right now.
Sorry everyone doesn't connect SO.
Unfortunate supers. Good is a reaction.
Really good idea. My captions.
Structure. The captions arrived.
You only have to wait 8 minutes. It's fine.
Maybe a total of nine workers gonna hit by this rock team.
Oh my God, yeah. I like that mechanically that
just like sucker punches a reaction, it makes it so much
stronger than actual sucker punches.
Sucker Punch is good. It's yeah.
We have to come in like it's even better in this game.
This for us? Yeah.
It's fun populating the reactions.
I don't remember if that was like straight lifted from P5E or
not, but reaction economy is kind of fun for Pokémon because
there's a lot of moves that like could totally work flavour wise.
Yeah, go for Fury Attack and is going to go.
For that and baby doll eyes were like some of my personal
favorite moves because of that structure.
Baby doll eyes was like the only move kept from beginning to end
right I feel like. Yeah, it was just, well, it was
just so like powerful as a defensive reaction.
Did Trevor have hardened the whole time?
Brainer. Yes, Trevor kept hardened the
whole time. Yo Trevor getting hardened.
Andrew I. Wish there was like a move.
We can also I heard to have. Taunt.
Thank you. I'm glad.
Demonstrating a superior. Baby doll is the only non
offensive move I kept as soon like I think as soon as I got it
or if I already had it. It's the only one I kept, right?
So yeah, I'll just go for an Ember and a piggyback 15 that.
Was so JK actually every starter except quacko I think kept one
move. Oh.
My God. Right.
Broken. I.
Mean I don't know what I did you have.
To keep a move draining kids. Remember, I got well, I didn't
keep draining kiss, but I got to keep.
Like healing? Kind of kind of, yeah.
Like it's. Kind of counts too.
We got. This I come on picky.
Peck, I believe in you and picky Peck's just like it's just
really. Yeah, 'cause the normal stab
early on for Quacko was a Fury attack.
Yeah. So pretty good to start, but
into Trevor this time and that is a 11th that's not going to
work. At the week flying guys not
breaking my AC over and over again.
Yeah, yeah, it's looking like a pretty good game gym for Gimli.
I almost said gim for gym. An old gim dude dim.
What's your minimum? Damage, technically.
Hey, Gimli's here, OK? Yeah, roll your damage in the
gym. All right.
Do you have any flavor text for it?
Yeah, you found him pretty early on.
I guess he doesn't need to go on the adventure anymore.
Smoke. With that, Trevor, Yeah.
But just being held hostage by the government now, that's the
only reason to do anything, finding the synergy.
In a pretty round battle. Yeah, we forgot that we're being
held hostage by the government. And.
Oh yeah, I guess. Some thought device to keep you
guys in the region. Yeah, that was the best I could
come up with. I would generally wish you luck
for the remaining. State it wasn't a bad one.
It was in the background enough to be like you didn't have to
question why, you just weren't leaving.
Right, right, right room. Again, there's.
Like turbines and stuff going all over over the place.
In hindsight, like I don't know, it was in a football field.
It was like the only option I could come up with.
Do you guys have ideas for if you had to trap people from
different lands in one place, what you would come up with?
The gentleman seems like he's on good terms.
Not. At all and miles, he says.
Hey, the only other real option is to give them purpose to be
there in the first place. Like a bounty or something,
right? Yeah, they're all here.
For XYZ reasons. Don't do it.
Do you have a rock and a turtle?
So maybe you'll be you'll be a little.
Like we all had such diverse reasons for being where we were
instead of just having like a unified thing, right?
I think. Most of them are like if you, if
it's not just you meet in a Tavern, it's like you meet a
Tavern because you got this letter to do XYZ thing and
you're like, OK, so you come in knowing you're like some kind of
like mercenary. Anyway I.
Really like it when like a campaign has like like there is
like a unifying goal like we had with like kind of in a way
getting the the badges and then also the Atlas stone, but like
we also each had our individual goals, like with with Gimli
looking for his son, Cindy looking for her grandparents
fidelity. We're just fucking around, I
guess. I don't know.
Yeah, Schmidt. Had.
Nothing. We we had like little arcs, like
we had little goals and things. Those are definitely the
characters that like grew the most throughout because we did
not have. Yeah.
Like, major purpose? Yeah, for a while.
Right. That's kind of like doing that
with a character. It's like I didn't, I didn't
come in with something, but I kind of found it along the way
because. This was my first DND character.
Yeah, one of my biggest regrets, but I'm not like beating myself
up about it. But I do wish I could have had
like a persistent equal spotlight plus an on all the
characters. But it's just it's hard to do to
that alert. Yeah, I.
Don't really needed. To.
Yeah, I didn't feel excited by the screen time quote UN quote
that I got. I think the story was great,
like we had a good. Time to make faster or do cool
tricks. Or whatever you there's
certainly some DMS that like are really excellent in making that
kind of happen. So everyone had an arc.
It depends on what the goal of the table is, right?
Like, it's not a not a matter of everybody needing to have the
spotlight. If like everyone's on the same
page of like, I want to tell a good story and there are side
characters in a good story, and sometimes they're people's
favorites. You know that's how it goes.
My goal was to kind of rotate focus, which I think worked
pretty well. Yeah, yeah.
I think that that absolutely happened, yeah.
My biggest singular regret is that I just could not come up
with anything with victory is going to look, that's that's
Eldy's brother's name, right? Oh yes.
His name? Was it Victor?
Yeah. No, it's Victor.
I couldn't come up with. AI honestly forgot I was like
who the fuck are you talking about?
But yeah, you're right. I spent four years thinking
about how do I incorporate this guy and I just like, couldn't.
I just had no idea. I mean, he wasn't, you know,
like he was off doing his own thing.
So, yeah, yeah. Yeah, and he was in Gallor too.
And it was just like, why would this like good trainer come to
ho in like just for fun? Like I just couldn't come up
with it so. Yeah, no, that's fine.
He was just meant to be like, oh, this is just part of
Elodie's back story, like. You have a family member in the
background. Or whatever.
Like I, my family was all good at battling.
I'm not. That just makes me who I am, you
know, Like, you know, I think it.
Makes money. Torkle has a proficiency right
in athletics. He does, yeah.
That's what I was about to ask. Let's do like 2 rules.
Proficiencies are funny. Some of them I took from AP5E,
especially early on. An athletics check for.
Did the video freeze? I think you froze so it'll.
Be, I think you. Think I froze so.
Athletics should be. Fine, and you got to heat them
up. 1 might be. A little.
Bit bigger, but you'll still be put them in.
The air fryer warm up gang. Put them in the air fryer, OK?
So get the liner first, then put them in the air fryer check, but
not the nature check. So purple success, yeah, Pokémon
like skill proficiencies. For Cal.
Early on I was definitely borrowing a lot from P5E, but
you didn't not too long after, like probably around Hoopa time,
I started just kind of winning it like to make more sense.
But like I guess I guess I'd give a turtle athletics.
I don't know, it's like strange, you know turtles are Hardy,
right. So I definitely would do
survival faster. Doesn't actually say that, but
that's what. And then besides that, I don't
fucking know dude. It might just have to be
athletics by default because I don't know what to put there.
Well, it's just this is the strength based like thing.
Yeah, maybe it's. Based on the The rampaging
Torkle, the rampaging Torkle having athletic makes sense.
Yeah, I'm sure. Yeah.
Oh no, just working in range. Because I'm right next to it,
yeah. Target remains in battle, Which
he. Would it's funny seeing like a
Gligar here and I don't think we ever saw another Gligar.
Were there any Pokémon in the campaign that you guys were
hoping to see that we just like never did?
So you still have a. Movement a Fido going to.
Move the Yeah, that's fair. That's OK.
I don't know honestly. Like I no thoughts had empty
like I was just having a good time.
I was like whatever came up was cool and interesting.
Like I was just ready for whatever.
I wasn't really good while we were like, Fido wasn't a thing
when we started the camp, correct?
No, I would have liked, I would have really liked Richie to
predict Tito's existence and. I predicted to Syrian Zora so I
could have predicted a bread dog I guess.
Exactly. Like, come on.
No, yeah, Scarlet Violet came out when we got to Rusborough.
I remember specifically, which is why I put in the paradox
thing. Immediately I was like, there
has to be like a little paradox thing.
And I was like this there was the party has three Pokémon that
like fit with that so. There's an MPC with like a
revving room or something right at the jacket.
Oh yes, the access, yes. So a little bit earlier even.
Yeah, it was right around the 1st.
So, interestingly enough, yeah, tucks in its limbs.
Blasts so funny it's the perfect Pokémon for other like MPCS to
have but no one wants to use that but like revving room it's
just so funny yeah it's just like it fits him so perfectly
onto like random MPC team we'll. See, I, I kind of like him.
I don't know aesthetically. Like I do, I do like him
aesthetically. It's just like, I can't imagine
it being like anyone's choice to like be in like a selected
campaign or like a party. You have to be like a race car
driver. Like a car guy, Yeah.
Yeah, you got to be a car guy. Panic tinkerer, do something of
sorts. I don't know, it could be sick.
It could be cool, right? Could be useful too, as far as
like zooming around. Yeah.
No, it's probably incredibly you.
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, he's not.
Big enough? Hook it up.
To a wagon. No, he's not that big.
Remember the the team star revive rooms are huge.
They're on the ground. And they're just sequential.
Oh, those guys modified I. Mean right.
Yeah. But it's a color.
So modified a big Bing on it. Yeah, so put something big on it
if you're. A mechanic you would definitely
have like a passive to that's. True.
Dude that would be so sick. Can one of you scrap your
character? Oh yeah, don't.
Throw my character out the be a race car driver Rev room guy.
I think there's a chance. I was always craving a steal
poison type since I was like very young and I was hoping it
would have levitate, but I think everyone's still kind of cool.
I think that is totally fair to. Do it's actually not fair if it
would have had levitate. Yeah, that'd be fucked.
I mean it's that's aren't that good.
But you know, the real crime is that it doesn't get U-turn.
It's a fucking car. The car does not get U-turn.
So sad. Don't fix that in Gen. 10 like
the body press zombizenta issue. Yeah, maybe.
Yeah, he does. He does get high horsepower
though, so. I think in just I've been very
nostalgic in thinking about the campaign in general lately.
I think one Pokémon that like was shockingly underrepresented
was EV and EV evolutions. I think we.
Yeah. Fight with a leafy on it, Is
that it? I think that's it potentially.
I think so, yeah. Yeah, somebody getting an EV
could have been fool, but. Yeah.
I don't know what like Gimli or Schmidt would have done with
one. Oh, I would, yeah.
Freezion. Yeah.
Freezion, baby. Freezion and Champion too.
Those are like 2 Evie. Lucian champion would have been
great. I love.
Those champion's cool. So I would have been happy to go
through something, but yeah, Evie was on encounter tables for
sure, but it just never came out again, so that happens.
It's crazy poor cool. Everything had a fire.
I was like, what? What happened?
True. And to answer your original
question, Richie, I think early on I kind of wanted a trophy us,
but I was not. I used to love troops.
No, I love hearing that because like, yeah, if you guys had
anything doesn't like oh, this would be cool on my team and you
didn't get it. I I don't want to know.
Tropics didn't make it onto any encounter tables actually in
hindsight. So that's kind of fucked.
I'm sorry. Yeah.
I think the only area that spawns in game was like the
place we were at early and I feel like that'd be kind of a
fucked up mom to give early. Totally.
Yeah. Yeah, well, you still managed to
get into a more speedy form, but you won't be going super fast.
I did try to encourage like towards, but it was like towards
the end of the campaign, so it's probably too late that like you
could just go to rounds and make a check and find something.
But yeah. But yeah, I think I already have
like, fucking Garridos by that point.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I think it, Yeah, I think,
and I think we talked about this like party size.
It was the thing. It was just like, you just don't
really want a super huge party or like a ton of Pokémon on the
PC. Then it's like I feel like I'm
neglecting them, yeah. OK, you don't need to dash to
clean. I think even like use.
The extra movement to turn around and I.
Was just going to say to the opposite end, coming to love
Pokémon that, you know, we didn't perhaps have a fondness
for before. Kind of the fun side effect of
like VGC not having the Pokémon that you want.
Yeah, exactly level. One that always happens to me
every time that should. Hit right.
That's a great silver lining, actually.
Now that you bring that up, that's yeah.
You always get new favourites based on like oh dude I just
love to use it this thing. Yeah, that's awesome.
Deals just four damage, 4 poison damage.
I know you said yours was Swamper, right Grace?
So it is in fact a. Baby, Yeah, absolutely.
I used to be like Gen. 3 was one where like I couldn't decide
between Torjic and it's a good bat Trico, yeah.
Not a big deal. And then now I can't decide
between all three of them, so thank you for that.
Bruin halfway back to Gimling. It's going.
To take Gen. 3 and Gen. 9 for me are the starter batches where I
think they're just all great. Like them all a lot.
Another turn, Bligar is going to use its movement and then try.
Gen. 9's got a good batch set. Up, yeah, set stealth rocks in
front. It has a range of 50 feet.
So it's going to set up, set stealth rocks in front of
Torkle, it's going to impose difficulty.
I wonder how differently the combat would look for someone
running a system like this. Sligar is who, like, only play
singles. Yeah, 35 feet left because I was
just thinking about Stealth Rock.
I was like we didn't like we had some hazard shining, especially
Schmidt's model gym re challenge.
OK, yeah, let's see it. But like it's just I guess it's
not even really comparable like TTRPG versus VGC versus singles
are very different. So maybe Simon worth thinking
about, but maybe maybe some OU God would program combats very
differently. It's a lot more switching coils
up into its shell and. That could be like a cool
concept for a trainer who's like, specialty is like hazards
and switching and stuff, Yeah. But doesn't make much ground.
And you still have Whirlwind. Did any of that ever come up in
the campaign? Phasing moves, I think just
yeah. Somebody.
Something used roar, didn't it? I don't think so.
I swear that happened at some point.
It was like a gym challenge that didn't happen to me maybe.
Yeah, it's fun thing about things that just like didn't get
used. Yeah, I don't think there was
like any forced phasing, but that could have been really
interesting. The race ends and potentially
really annoying, except. His baby.
But all like all the all the mechanics are there.
You like, you know, you roll AD 6IN whatever slot, you know,
like just kind of checks out, right?
Ben says you know. Despite having a turtle, I think
you did pretty well there. Thank you, that was rough.
Damn, despite having a turtle? And it was a.
Race. Was this the race?
Yeah. Yeah, Oh.
Hey, it's a hey, who wins the race.
It wasn't just. Turtle racism.
Yeah, it was the kind. Of opens up.
Yeah, but the tortoise always wins the race between the
tortoise and the hare. Yeah, that's true.
What about the tortoise and? The bird Maybe he was a hare
and. Propellers and things, you just
see long pillars or tortoise and the bug.
It was Yanma, right? Yeah.
Stretched. Through the open.
Yeah, I'm this bugger. Was it Geiger?
I thought it was Yanma. Oh, I might have slowed it down
for Gimli. Actually, I might have done that
on purpose, I think. Yeah, glasses and she, I, I
totally did that, I think. We all had glass.
Shiny Yanma. Yeah, yeah.
I mean, like for the rock and the turtle.
Yeah, that checks out. Was it?
Shiny Pokémon would. You like to No.
The shiny Yanma was a specific nod to boarding party just.
Stay at a shiny. Yanma without if you wish.
OK I do so I didn't finish boarding party but I feel like
our adventures had a similar number of shinies.
Her name is Gabriella which I thought was like the perfect
amount. I know not everyone got one and
by that I mean literally only L that he got one but they're
shinies like. That they should be rare.
You know they should. Be rare.
Exactly. No, absolutely.
Having at least one I feel like is fun.
You don't have. It's like, yeah, you could mute
a little bit. And we encountered another one
we saw the Sharpedo. That's true.
That's true if you'd. Like I don't.
Think you'll be able to take it down though until we tick goes
and it seems really confident it did.
Roll your initiative, you can practice.
It. I like that.
Yeah, I'm practicing. Hell yeah, have a good tick,
wiggles it's finger. You sound upset with the that
it's metronome. And it it's a little scary and
goes for a bug bite. Oh.
OK, bug bite. Does a 10 hit Trevor?
No the. Bug bite fails to Pierce.
You sound incredibly disappointed.
It's. Metro, it's kind of.
Sleepy bug bite. It's like.
It's. Whatever.
Well, against the trainer with a rock type and a fire tape.
Yeah, it's not gonna be ideal. OK, let's see it now.
If Gimme had a clip some berries, then that one be kind
of sick actually, but a. Rock Just.
Goes wild and just just soars off into the distance of the gym
and you hear a coworker, a power plant worker, go like hey.
Trevor still get decent. Absolutely.
All right. Togotic feeling kind of sleepy,
wiggles its finger. God.
What was the 1st evolution is? Covered that you fought?
Yeah. Dark.
Sinister. Energy, No.
When was the first evolution? Oh, like the first book that
evolved? Yeah, let's think about it,
Chad. Was it?
Was it solely with the
Firestone? No, it couldn't have been.
It might have. It could be something I.
Mean, I did buy it relatively early, but I don't think mine
was the first evolution though, right 'cause that was in what?
Else it would have been. Right.
I'm like, 'cause I don't think it might have been one of the
three stages, Trevor, like Pablio or oh, oh, absolutely.
It's probably. Trevor Trevor during the pumpkin
fight. Oh yeah, I.
Yeah, 'cause that was like such a big moment.
We were like, Oh my God, Trevor's all like.
Yeah, both of Trevor's evolutions were like really sick
boss fight tanking moments. It was so good.
Yeah, saving. Throw.
They were just so well. On brand for Trevor because
that. Yeah, as I provoke it.
I was wondering if that's the same way I assume.
It does, but yeah, least whelming evolutions IMO I think.
OK, I think Meryl Cheap Shake takes the cake just for the
sense that so many people didn't know what happened.
It was like a it's like a 20. Second during the gym challenge.
Yeah, so Meryl Cheap wins. And like, while it wasn't a
ceremony. Is it because it only appeared
once after that? Yeah, Meryl, Cheap.
Did like it was talent flame and then it was done.
Yeah, Meryl Cheap's funny, hey, but it's it totally aced an
encounter for you, so totally worth the pick up.
That's true. Yeah, you did that.
Get one that 20 and that was pretty pog.
Yeah. We had to fight a volcano
instead of us Volcano Camel. Yeah, which was for the best at
the end of the day, yes and yeah, well, it was pretty
unceremonious, but I still thought it was charming.
Was solely's evolution. But like, how else are you going
to do it? It's Firestone, like, right.
I guess we could have home brewed it could have been a
combat specific thing, but like I don't know, like that's just
kind of how it happens like. Right it.
Was still sweet, but not very exciting.
Gate keep the Firestone till later but it was good.
Yeah, I think it. Yeah.
My, I was curious. I mean, we're not there yet, so
we can talk about it when we get there, too.
But I was curious if Cindy was just going to sit on the
Firestone for a bit. But knowing Cindy's character
and also Melissa's place, I like it.
I'm realizing now that would have never happened, but yeah,
they. Just ripped it.
Yeah. It's it's a RIP I think.
Didn't I do it like at the store too?
Like you go right? Why would I sit on that?
Yeah, Gabriel, I I have a feeling that CJ might have been
like, well, nine tails doesn't learn any moves, so I need to
like think, wait until I get a good move or.
So you know. I would certainly wait.
Don't be super annoyed. But totally got the move she
needed from the TM schools so turned out totally fine.
Toyo. 'S going to shoot number.
OK. Actually, no, we're just going
to take the the rock damage for. Free rocks.
Gabrielle's look at a little stressed.
Oh, Jesus. Yeah, you should.
That's 26. Oh, Jesus, you should.
Yeah, you should, dog. Yeah, you should be.
There. Yeah, fun.
Freaking be freaking out right now so. 26 damage yeah, super
effective at the 1st gym. That checks out.
Nice, I am. Not the lucky one this time.
Yeah. Yikes.
What's What's Trevor doing? Trevor, we're going to try.
Our luck with that. I think if it was like by the
end of the campaign I would have been like upset if I got a 26.
Yeah, right. The power scaling and the way
that we played, I think it was fun.
I don't regret it, but compared to like regular D&D, it's like a
lot of dice to roll, but big numbers are.
I had the. Thought of like doing it like
TCJ where it's just like at a flat like die or something.
Super effective instead of doubling, sure.
Prankster deity. There's probably a lot of ways
to do it. I it was fun.
Having. Here's the whole.
Numbers go up free itself from its rock, too.
Oh yeah, the hyperspace hole. Yeah, teleports behind Trevor
and deals damage with an attack that can only be described as
Hyperspace Hole. So teleports behind you.
Oh my. She.
Didn't do it 15. Hit Trevor Noni no it.
Doesn't. No, it's.
A 60? Are you kidding?
Oh, Trevor, I'm sorry. Trevor. 14 OK, thank.
Goodness, OK, Trevor doesn't fucking care.
See, that's why you ask. It's because your players will
lie to you sometimes. They have to verify.
So you're taking get for trying so hard here.
One and two. OK, that's five damage from
hyperspace hole. Hyperspace.
Hole. I think that's Hoopa signature
move. Oh, is it?
Yeah. That's.
Funny, That's insane. Nice foreshadowing.
Nicely done, Rich. I honestly don't you.
Yeah. I don't even know if I was
playing in a Hoopa dungeon at this point.
So that's pretty fun. I think the full motivation for
the Hoopa dungeon was, one, the Trick House was there.
I thought I wanted to make a fun experience with the Trick House
because that's an iconic Hoenn landmark.
And two, I wanted to introduce a magical item for the party that
could let you fast travel because I just thought that
would be beneficial. And then we didn't use it.
You used it in important. Stories.
I'm not sure how. Yeah, that's true.
How long? I mean, last important, Yeah.
Also, I feel like we used it in the most iconic way.
That's. True.
I I it was very true, I think actually, because, yeah, that
seems appropriate. Yeah.
When you didn't use it, you were just traveling and you had cool
moments and encounters, and when you did use it, it was like a
big deal. I think it was ideal.
I think it was perfect. I.
Don't think, don't worry about it.
Alleyway portal was really funny.
Worry about the boat. The boat's a class.
The boat is just. The best?
I can't get over the boat. That's like one of those like
explain to like convince me to listen to your podcast with one
scene 1 instance. It's like, that's the one, like
like we crashed a boat into the house.
Gestures you to the staircase. The boat's named Deez Nuts, by
the way. And the boat is.
A boat named these Nuts actually sounds kind of like typical
adventurer TTT stuff actually feel like that happens.
Stuff like that happens pretty often.
Turbine blades behind you and you can see another regret.
Now that I'm thinking about regrets, it's not an actual
regret, but I guess Pokémon is full of like lovable creatures,
but a lot of really fun TTRPG tables and other podcasts.
We'll have like the token little guy of the party, you know, like
an NPC that's just like who's adopted, you know.
But I, I guess in Pokémon they're kind of all that.
So maybe that is why it happened.
I'm speaking from. That which I feel like.
Yeah, we had omelet, we had my junior, we had troubish.
Well, I mean, I feel like I had troubish.
Yeah. Winona steps over to you.
Yeah. Because we're all, like, adopted
temporary friends. I mean, troubish, I guess,
became mine. I don't.
Know, yeah, in a way OK so yeah, we we kind of did it There
wasn't a consistent one but it did happen and she says I made
it that was pretty fast wasn't. It it's hard to have team pet
when you have a series of pets. Yeah, yeah, exactly.
It was. It was I think Bean too.
Bean had a lot of like angry little guy energy.
Yeah, little moments, Yeah, fill up all of my.
Pokémon I think everyone had like their own.
Individual. Yeah, everyone had their own
individual little guys. Yeah, this is excellent.
And she sends out three Pokémon. Well, will Gimli choose?
Do you remember CJ? You a bird?
God no. Why was that a little scary you?
See the description of Skarmory. No when CJ said no.
Yeah, he's spooky. He met on the rap.
Prior. You remember?
Hell no, I remember nothing. Yeah.
Four years ago. Not a thought like a old Dino.
That looks like a tree that is made of leaves, and it's got.
Bananas. Oh, that's not.
Yes, she is. Oh, drop me a.
Hip is. Yeah, just steal them from the
gym trainer. That or gym leader.
That's fine. This.
Is excellent. Everyone had Altaria I think.
No, everyone had different options.
I don't know. This is Winona.
This. Is Winona.
Yeah, I remember. I think I did Pelopurt.
I wanna date with Winona and steal it for this. 2.
V true, yeah, that's how that works, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, I was. So.
Scared there's gonna be a three. I only date to steal people's
Pokémon and no other. Reason, right.
Yeah, exactly. First, OK, so.
If I was gonna do a combination attack with my two Pokémon, I
would. Have to wait.
This is the first yeah this has to be the first combination
attack because you just got 2 Pokémon so so.
What I want to do, yeah, because I want to similar to what we
did. Last you got to do shit like
this. I want to like in TTRPGS.
Go into a shell and arm Trevor in front of him like a cannon.
Oh my God. Oh, this was so, yeah, I
remember hearing about this and I was like, oh, this is sick.
Absolutely. They get ready to launch.
Give me ADC 10 nature check constitute nature.
I guess I'll explain it that one all right every time I'll.
Produce something, that one. Yeah, it's.
It's Trevor's turn. I will.
I will describe that Gimli conveys this strategy and can
witness Torkel basically just misfire.
Torkel's like I'm charging up, I'm going to make a blast and
then just smoke comes out. OK.
So you may be you can adjust your plan if you'd like.
So I guess like, OK, I guess it's I guess we're too early
for. That movie we literally.
Just met, so yeah. It's like, I know he's like, I'm
all bad. The synergy was kind of there
for the finisher on the first slide.
He might get it now. He's not happy.
I love the face on this Altaria image.
I know I was just. Looking at it, it's like kind
of, it's like cringing or something.
I don't know how to describe. It yeah, it's like, yeah, I
don't know. I don't.
Think so? It's all in.
The truth. It'll be unreal, yeah.
OK, Altario's kind of. Like the Trevor?
Go on. The Kermit face, yeah, he's like
pulling in on himself. Totally.
Won't happen. The rocks go.
Wide Altario's kind of like a central Pokémon in the podcast,
like I didn't expect it to be, but I guess with two swab Blues
being caught, like it's just present all like it's one of the
most present Pokémon, especially for not a starter, you know,
sparks fly out. Everywhere.
It's kind of like a pseudo starter.
It was the first Pokémon Schmidt actually owned.
And right when Farfetch started to fall off was when it evolved.
And then it like kind of took over for a while until we just
hooked up Farfetch with way more stuff like the sword and stuff.
But even then, Farfetch ended the game with like pretty low
HP, right? Come.
On Trevor, yeah. No, I was about that.
Yeah. The thing with the final battle,
as far as like what was hard about it was keeping our
trainers alive, Yeah, because it was our actual trainers that
kept getting knocked. Out totally and I had like, I
still had like that much. At all four or five Pokémon in
the back, that sled, Full HP. If it was just that, but it was
the trainer, yeah. Fire off a fiery dragon breath
at Trevor. Yeah, humans are not able to
withstand gueratina attacks. It's tough to come up with
situations. I guess I could have been meaner
with wild encounters, not do it, but it's tough to come up with
situations where all of the trainers are threatened.
That isn't like Satan or I guess Deoxys too, but it's got to be
like a big bad evil guy. Like I feel like you're you're a
pack of Puccienna is still like not even that big of a deal.
You know, breth, is. Crazy.
I think it's Breth. Though.
Yeah, for the final Boston roller, Yeah, my, my main thing
is getting as exposure earlier would have been interesting to
that kind of situation, but it makes sense that it didn't
happen. Takes a nap.
It added difficulty to the final battle, Yeah, because I was
fully expecting to just roll through it because we had
basically 6D and D characters apiece.
But when our actual characters get knocked out, yeah.
Exactly. 14 right and it's like action economy like I can't
spend my turn commanding 6 Pokémon so there's no point in
using all of them at once. A massive.
Hit as it's. Asleep just targets pummel into.
Its fluffy, cloudy body. Is this going to wake?
It up and if I have them all out, since it's area effect
stuff like they're all going to get knocked out totally.
Yeah, from these. Rocks and I think it's a good.
Sort of a rolled. Around and also for the final
battle, only our start like only the ones that were aspects did
double like did super affect the other Pokémon?
It was like, would not have done it, would it?
Would have been resisted, which just makes it that much harder
to use any of them because it's like, well, it's barely going to
do anything compared to this Satan or Atari.
Going for yeah. I was curious about how Mechanic
was going to shake out. I think it in general was good
because we put the spotlight on the starters.
But you know. But we got right.
I like that. But.
The damage is like only 10 damage.
Sorry listeners, it's fresh on our mind because it was the
finale released, so I'll be good.
I listen to it and we've been thinking about it and talking
about it. So fails natural one.
OK. Perfect.
We are going to continue the rock damage then.
OK, 48. Plus.
Three. Another 20.
Wow, wow, Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow.
Your response to that feels like I was not prepared for all the
Super. Effective damage, yeah, that's
bonk. I mean, I knew it would be it
would be easy for Gimli, but I didn't know how easy if you for
Gimli shucking rocks at this fluffy cloud bird.
It's starting. It's the Rock Blast team just
have to get buried. In Rock Tomb is doing the
automatic damage right? That's true, Rock tomb was doing
all the automatic damage you should have.
Rock blast my guy. Oh my God, a 7th What is?
He trying, Trevor. Trevor's getting complacent now
that he's not the only Pokémon on the team.
Yeah, he's getting lethargic. Yeah.
He's like, oh, we we. Trevor's a fun Pokémon to
personify. Especially Rock'n'roll because
there's literally nothing going on.
There's nothing like look how lethargic he is.
He's just an. Eye, He's just, he's just there.
He literally can't give a face. Kind of awesome to have one of
those. We only have one option while
we're restrained, and that is too.
Fine. And his name's just Trevor.
Like that's just a dude. Yeah, exactly.
I love them Pokémon. So what was the dudes?
Yeah. What was the inspiration behind
the name Trevor was there? Or was it just?
No, I just like naming rock Pokémon.
Just dude names. OK, that's.
Awesome, like Tyrannitar? Looks like a Doug to me.
You know, yeah, totally. He does.
You're so right. So I'm saying it I.
Remember there was a Lebowski but.
Yeah. He's the dude.
That's he's not you. Yeah, he's the dude because he's
you dude I don't want. To use it.
Now, one of the first comments we got in the final episode was
what happened to Lebowski? Why didn't he evolve?
And I was like, you know what? It's so true, so fair.
I explained it. He wasn't allowed to evolve yet.
He wouldn't have been the dude. Anymore.
Yeah, he he also just didn't have XP because of the problem
that we talked about earlier where you just get too many
Pokémon. It's hard to use them.
Yeah, it's something we should probably think about and solve
going into the the next. Thing I.
Think oh. No, yeah, I think tight match up
for Lebowski too because it's like what is electric, It's
super effective that Rock doesn't.
Yeah, water, that's. It flying, it works with your
water matchup probably a little bit, but then we run into water.
Yeah, right. I know other Pokémon table or
TTRPG tables, they have like trainer classes and one of them
is like a collector and they just catch as many Pokémon as
possible and that's like how they unlock their abilities and
stuff of blue and interest. But I'm not sure that even still
it like solves the problem of and is going party size and
stuff. And you don't want the party
size to be unlimited either, you know.
So yeah, it's just tough. Is there an answer?
I don't know. I honestly don't know.
Honestly it's XP share. Yeah, yeah, I feel.
Like infinite rare candies. Right.
Like some sort of something where you can get like XP
candies or just the XP share? Something you take the hardcore
Nestlock solution. It's just when you reach a
certain point that it's a checkpoint.
You just have to bump everyone up to a table.
Yeah, that's not bad. You bump everyone to a level
cap, it's like, oh, catch everybody up, like, OK.
Bless you. Thank.
You. Would you like?
To sorry it's OK, just like 1. I thought a dog ate a microphone
like. All right, I dad sneeze.
Into the air. Someone's got it.
The. Maximum damage it possibly could
out of. This yeah, to try to interesting
stuff to try and like that's kind of the fun of the home
brewing stuff is just finding stuff and then fiddling with it
until you can make it work Falls.
To the ground, yeah. Finding solutions to the
problems in the system that you're like exhaustion.
But like, it's funny because that's also a problem just in
the actual game. Totally.
Yeah, yeah. And they kept solving.
It in different. Ways like, oh, we yeah, it's
like, oh, we have. Frankly, done gambling.
You really did it. My heart.
Yeah, I know people complain about like like the difficulty
with not being able to turn XP shirt off, but it's just like
also a. Feather badge.
It's not. It's not a real difficulty, you
could just grind. Like.
You can impose your own difficulty.
It's really just a time save, yeah.
Just put your wands in the box if you don't want to blow up,
you know right? But as classic rock.
Types tend to do you be a milestone.
Kind of what? Ketchups.
It sounds pretty good. Yeah, it's like a.
Simple thing because as Adm you're already baking in
milestones anyway for these like level up.
So like as we be like and your Pokémon are all your other
Pokémon are a base threshold. This because they weren't used
like OK, right? And it's like, you know, you
don't have to walk through the whole I, I hesitate to be just
like, oh, you just level up your Pokémon for like flavor reasons
of like we are still playing Muni.
But at the same time, like if you yourself have leveled up as
a trainer and all of you are like, you know, some of your
other Pokémon have leveled up as well, It's probably fair to
assume that in a moment of rest you could like catch up your
other Pokémon. We'll.
Call it, yeah. Hey, I have like some kind of
penalty to it, but it's like you have to spend a long rest doing
this or whatever. If you're enjoying the.
Series. Yeah, something like that.
We don't. Have like a real long rest
economy either. Yeah.
This format that's like a, yeah. Poker that is kind of fun with
that, you know, But yeah, inspired.
Right, cuz you're like, oh, we're gonna deal.
I'm just gonna back in the boat, too.
So yeah, enjoy this content. You should without a doubt go
check them out as well. Stuff to think about is now
live. Yeah, we play for four years and
we still have so many questions, you know, just behind this since
discussions, an NPC naming form and more goodies for a patrons
that you can only find there. This probably isn't a blooper.
I was like what blooper's going to be, but it's probably going
to be like a little wind down with CJ probably is my guess.
Or just nothing. There's the finale.
Got him so uninteresting. I get no blooper.
Yeah, that was that was really fun.
I'm so sad the Canon didn't work.
I was so excited for it to try it out and I was just like.
You'll have another chance. I have a feeling it'll it'll
come up at. Some point, it was more than a
feeling. Yeah, it definitely came up
again. That's great.
Should we just. I mean, it's autoplay in the
next one. Should we?
We're here, but we could just do it.
Yeah. Everyone down.
Yeah. Yeah, let's do it featuring.
Not even close to late with. His far fetched quacko may as
well Melissa as Cindy with her voltage solely and the last one
Grace Ellie saving best for less.
Millsery cabbage Yoho. I will say the trend for Elodie,
no fault of her own. Trevor, my name is usually the
longest gym challenges realities almost always right.
I think so. Which is just fun More more
content yourself in a bed. There's a content machine, dude.
Yeah, yeah. Grace can't stop.
You do either jet lag or stress, or maybe you're just super cozy.
You wake up pretty late. It's like a like 9 AM, 10 AM.
You arise out of your bunk bed and you notice that everyone
else's beds are empty. You knew that Gimli and Schmidt
were on the other side of the room.
Schmidt, of course, fought. Did the party ever camp outside
when they and they like had to somewhat near you as well?
I don't think so. We, we did one time in Deuford.
We just laid outside of Omari's house.
We. Didn't have true.
We didn't have to we. Certainly voluntary.
In fact, it was just to be threatening.
Yeah, it was, yeah. I think we were losing it you.
Were there's definitely we had a gas leak here for sure.
Yeah, there. Was a point where it just we
went off the deep end the. Dewford Fubes are really good
news. Head on over to the lab that
takes you up to the. That's really interesting
because that like camping is iconic for D&D, but like, yeah,
we just never, I guess the adventure was pretty urban and
Pokémon regions in general are pretty urban, but still really
interesting that just, it just never came out.
They hold and they request your trainer's license.
You didn't camp in The Cave, right?
You might have. Did you stay at Gimli's We?
Did camp in The Cave, yeah. One night with Gimli.
Yeah, that's probably the that's like the only oh, and probably
Meteor Falls, but there was a village, so that kind of
doesn't. Really.
Yeah. It wasn't really actually
camping. It comes.
Again, urban. Yeah, yeah, there.
Are Suburbans just propellers? It's just a settlement.
It's not not the mountain suburbs attracted village.
Where I live, yeah, this suburb in the middle of the mountain.
No, it's it's a village. There were like a few houses.
Yeah. Pokémon battling pitch.
Yeah, that's really interesting. Pokeball engraved.
And to be fair, and while you like never do that in the video
games, you know who does that all the time?
The anime, at least in the first season.
Yeah, I feel. Like the?
Ash was like, always. Like could take some like 6
episodes to get in between cities though.
Yeah, yeah, Anime makes it the region so much larger.
Yeah. And.
Your luck today, which is just another thing to consider for
TTKRPG tables, is like how you want travel to go right?
Like how dense you want it to be, How survivalistic do you
want it to be like? Which is going to change
depending on the table. I'm definitely a travel light DM
personally, but some people love that shit, which is totally
valid. Is that 2 pokey balls outcomes
1A. Mercury, I guess it's pros and
cons. Like it can be fun, but like if
it goes on too long there's a point it's like.
Yeah, I could see it for like a stretch, but if it's like it's a
big all right, we got to the city, time to leave the city and
then like in between everything we had to do, it's.
Chunky. It can get kind of grindy
blueberry. 'S going to do.
I think Blueberry is going to go for an Astonish onto Like the
Grave. Blue bird, all right.
Blueberry, my fucking goat. 18 Blueberry's my goat too.
I love blueberry grey. Bird unsung hero the campaign I
wish we got more of an opportunity to do like Alteria.
Why are you making a duo synergy shit and.
Nothing happens. Yeah.
We were planning some shit at the end but we just never got
to. Do right start.
Yeah, I was like, oh, he's going to pop off so hard in the final
fight and then he died like right away.
And I was like, Oh well. He's.
So. Did not onto.
Blueberries. He so did not.
I was like, Oh well, never mind. Favors.
I think it's definitely possible
in a valid head cannon that they're from the same, which
would be cute. Could be siblings with that
damage blueberry. Mixes.
We caught them at the same time, didn't we?
Yeah, and Starly just. And then there's one that got
away Claw and. Talon implied.
Yeah, very. Little beautiful.
Face and then that one's going to be the BBEG of the next
cannon. Exactly. 4.
They abandoned me into. You know it's impossible to do
now but I'm so curious as like how many Pokémon were
represented in this campaign? You know Mercos armor class is a
few 100 right? I'm sure we can ask one of those
right now. Yeah, one of the people that
have listened to the entire series 8 times.
Well. You kind of have to count as
you're going, right? And Mercos going to take this
opportunity. Right.
Honestly, somebody. 'S counting Nat.
Yeah, they're counting crits, Nat 20s and.
Nat ones, yeah. I find it crazy that all of us
had more Nat 20s than crits than Nat ones because theoretically
they're the same likelihood. It's true it was also single
digit sample size though, so I imagine the more data you get
the more it evens out is my guess.
That's true. Yeah, that's probably very true.
I just find that cool. Yeah, that's.
Interesting. We're just lucky, I guess.
Yeah, we're gonna lucky squad for.
A disarming. Voice.
Except when it came to perception checks.
Yeah, but it doesn't. Mean yeah, it's that's or 1
area. Actually, like every time I like
get a comment and I'd look at the spot, I'm like, yeah,
notorious, the Packo failing every single one.
Unless every campaign I play into I like never get them.
There's even one in the in the final boss fight.
I feel like. No, I listened to it today.
I should know. Probably.
Yeah. It's so funny, dude.
Sizable hits. Yeah.
I was like, I don't know. But you.
Yeah. Yeah, this.
Time. It made for such a funny story
though. It did.
It really just blissfully
unaware of everything. Yeah, it's.
Gonna hit. All right, another big beak
coming in. Think it made the like it's
gonna. Be 9.
Days the fact that we weren't suspicious of Symetra doing
anything got packed like hit harder what I like because we
didn't catch that early we're. An acid.
Armor everyone witnesses as cabbage calls.
That's true How? Do I?
That actually would be just like, it's a lot of things that
end up being way more surprising just because we just were not
aware. We didn't see it yet.
Perception overrated? Perhaps Perception's bad
storytelling? Do you have?
Any ideas? Yeah, just stumble into it,
figure out. I have no idea what to say.
Perhaps she grows in outer shell.
I don't. The flavor text, says the user.
Oh, we're discussing acid armor and what it looks like on Mill
Surrey sharply. Increasing so she's.
Already liquid? So just kind of curds liquid.
Yeah, she is. Like copper liquid and it's
going to be so hard to. Hit hyper liquid.
Hyper liquid. Melty, there we go.
So. For one minute, 5 dimensional
liquid, a lot of rounds of combat.
Your armor class is boosted by two.
It is. It's 10 rounds of combat so.
That's probably like the only time I ever used acid armor.
Yeah, true. Just in case, back over to
Mercrow. Gonna bad move.
Yeah, just, you know, on the cabbage LE DS Mons have a lot of
stuff that they want to do, so acid armor just usually.
Isn't the. Rotation, OK, some reduced
damage, it's not very effective. 4/4 points of dark type damage
as Mercro. I think eventually we really
came to a pretty solid action economy plan.
The the two actions vibe was good, yeah.
But as we were saying earlier, like I I think the next thing I
would want to explore is just more reactions.
I think there's a lot of interesting stuff you could do
with reactions, even like moves but like also non moves like
feats and stuff they came into. Both.
Oh, that's true, yeah. Yeah, because a lot of our
reactions stuff was moose, so that would have taken up like a
move spot as well. Absurd.
I don't. Understand, I can't think of any
right now, but I'm sure there's like some interesting things
that you could do. Quick Attack all the time
because. They are in fact as a reaction.
We did that as a bonus action Which.
That was bonus. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
We checked that. Both of those can be explored a
lot more too. I think it's going to try to
wake up. There's a lot of there's a lot
of it does not official content to parse through and translate,
which is very fun. Cabbage.
What's cabbage going to do? Draining Kiss E Murgro.
OK, you get an advantage to hit OK, I'm.
Going to roll again because I was 8 and I got a Nat 1 so
there's. One of the Nat ones.
Last. Like your?
Bonus hit for draining kiss should be 4.
It should be 4. It should be 4.
OK, I have some nonsense written there.
I think it's instead of. It's probably Charisma plus your
proficiency modifier, I'm guessing.
Oh, probably. That's probably it.
Let's write that so that I know that, Yeah.
So that would be 12 then? Still doesn't hit.
I'm sorry, so close that would. Be it's all over all that work
extra. Liquidy and this extra
viscosity. Mask my greatest enemy, the.
Kiss on the Mercro and Mercro stay snoozing, or at least for
now. We'll see after this roll, and
that's a natural one. It's low roll hours right now.
Mercra schnoozing so hard it's absurd.
I'm going to take a tally for Mercro.
Another Mon that seemed to have a bookend appearance in the camp
thing it was early on and then as a place into.
Yeah. OK, that will hit.
How much damage does it do? I like Mercro.
Yeah, me too, despite these Pokémon getting asleep.
Mercro's cool. Blueberry really close, Mercro
was just shouts at I guess haunch Crow was the reason I
specifically wanted Diamond instead of Pearl this time.
It's because I liked Mercro and I was stoked to got an evolution
like a bit of fairy damages. Like how do you?
If I remember correctly it's still like hard to get in
diamond, which is. Star, It's postgame, yeah.
Yeah. So like all of the newer
evolutions? Didn't really matter.
Sadly, Starlee, Yeah, but I did prefer Haunch Crow over this.
Major, I'm gonna go for another draining kiss into this.
Mercro OK, Reasonable take, OK. So that was a different.
They're both cool honestly, but I was just.
Normal I ended up roll your damage.
We've had the BDSP draft league in this match just kind of
popped off for me a couple times so.
It's Flutterman. I have a yeah.
Let's go boom. I have a favorite.
Yeah. Fairy Smooch onto this.
I like this bag as this tradition Murkrow.
Has taken aback. Has cabbage drained some HP?
It's Murkrows. Turn Murkrow gonna go for a
pursuit this time into blueberry and that's a natural 19 that
will definitely hit. Yeah, that'll.
Hit and the damage is I was rolling.
D6 and I was. Like, is that a nine?
No, it's a. So.
That's eleven. Yeah, it does.
It seems like these birds when they're attacking do a great
job, but when they're trying to relieve themselves of some sort
of condition, they're just having a really hard time.
That's not Canon. I'm just speaking on on the
rolls that's they don't have abilities or anything.
They're just hitting really well and they're.
They're just birds. Yeah.
We're going to go for another thing.
Because that one did Patricia have natural cure our grow gets
a roll to six as negative Christmas I.
Think so. I don't have any of those sheets
anymore. Got it.
Yeah. Another thing that hardly came
up in our campaign was status conditions.
Starly wakes up. Not necessarily a regret.
I'm glad that we hammered out all the other stuff first, but
status conditions didn't come up a whole lot.
Sitting on the ground and it just took a little nap and it's
feeling great. So Starly is going to get up and
go for a Peck into cabbage. They do be hitting and.
Yeah, I think that's one of those things that like. 10.
Damage early on having like a couple is really nice, but then
later on when it's like you have the possibility of having some
money, I feel like it could get overwhelming.
Totally. I mean I guess if you figure out
how they all work and you build up, getting used to them
probably wouldn't be so bad. Or I guess I.
Could I don't think any Mon was ever badly poisoned for us,
right? Right.
I don't think anyone got poisoned period.
No poison at all man, Maybe pretty big.
There was definitely paralysis. Get poisoned?
Schmidt got bludge sludge bombs. Schmidt got poisoned and burned.
Not poisoned and burned, but. Yeah.
He got sludge bomb and flamethrower and burned out the
flamethrower. Was there a freeze?
I didn't think there were enough ice type moves to generate a
freeze. The twink, what was his name?
Yuri, Yuri. Cabbage.
No, you're the one. No other twink.
There's another 2. Weeks in in the NRG one shot
Mercro. Makes.
A spooky fit. With the run Nolan Nolan, he got
frozen. Totally.
You're totally right. Oh, that's right.
But yeah. Which is like.
Let's be fair, you're not Symmetrip or not Symmetrip.
It's Emily punched him out of it like.
Tally the wrong way. I did a fifth line instead of a
diagonal. Whatever, I'll do that for the
six. Weeks.
Well, how dare. You.
I know. I feel so dirty.
To be real, I have no memory of recording the second part of the
energy one shot. They're not.
Falling asleep, that's. I don't remember a lot of things
that we did. It's just been so long and we
did so much stuff, yeah. So much content.
Yeah. So many years has.
Been awake for a minute, no regrets of course, I just don't
remember a lot. Oh no, but that's why it's all
recorded. You can just go back and
experience it whenever. Like we are literally right.
Now, I was gonna say, are you going to start listening to
episodes now, CJ? Now that's over or.
Yeah, probably nothing happened. I get something I could imagine
running in the background just getting.
Being. Adorable, chunky doing stuff.
Yeah, a very. Mean face to blueberry?
Yeah, I might. I might listen eventually.
I definitely need some more time to cool down, but maybe
something go? For sure, it kind of helps Take
Me Out of it that like now that I was listening to even just
like an episode that was just me, I don't hear myself in my
own recording voice 20. 3. So it's like and I could to my
own like head Canada myself sounds so different than like
what the recording sounds like. Yeah, your head voice.
Yeah, yeah. 8 even like when I hear I'm just talking, I'm like,
oh, I don't sound like that. A great.
Hit. I always think I sound more
nasally on a recording than I actually talk, but I I do sound
like, like, just like Marco. 'S not doing good as a draining
kiss comes like a. Perception thing.
It's really that's like everyone.
It's 'cause you're your skeleton isn't reverberating.
Really is like the whole thing. Oh true, that was just.
Probably feeling yeah, then I and I wish my skeleton would.
Reverberate, yeah. So sad you guys can't do that.
No, that's why your voice sounds different to yourself is 'cause
it's channeling through your body. 23 that's eight damage. 8
flying type damage in the blueberry.
Is blueberry still up? Yeah, he's, he's got 3 HP, 3.
Yeah, that's a great, good, healthy number.
Good plastic blueberry. Yeah, a good healthy number that
I would love my Pokémon to have. This was like the first fight
and I'm like dying. This is why my gym challenge
takes so long. I don't have any damage output
which is my Pokémon are made of glass OK?
Spicy. That changes eventually, but
yeah, early on it's tough for. Being the support on my own
military, I have no undue support.
Yeah, military had the most like even stats spread out of the
starters, which was kind of an issue I think because like all
the other starters could do one thing particularly well where
cabbage just kind of like middle ground stats, which is kind of
hard to work with sometimes. Yeah, it was nice in a group
setting because it's like, you know, I can heal if I need to, I
can do a little bit of damage if I need to.
But on my own, it's just like, what am I good for?
Yeah, it's tough. Cabbage is still able to
definitely dodge the theory tech coming from Starley Cabbage's
turn. We've got to go over that
draining kiss into Mercro. We can do this.
Come on, cabbage. Come on, cabbage.
Come on. Cabbage.
Go you're.
Welcome to rule your damage. I think this KO's either way,
but you might as well see. 8, so 16 sixteen 7 + 8 + 3 that's 18.
18 It didn't make a difference. Yeah, that sounds good to.
Me still fun though. We'll take it you.
Know what? Wait, wait, I'm really trying to
calculate here and it's like, no, it's fine.
But they did they? No, no, no, we get a picture
list numbers right? Help the last.
Bit of life out of Mercrow. And numbers Mason.
The numbers, Mason, what do they mean?
Back and it retreats back into the blue pokey ball.
Now it's just it's Starling versus the world.
How much do I heal though? You're gonna heal the half of
the remainder of HP that Mercro has, which is grace really
trying to get like a nine point heal.
Hold HPV. Camera.
At least any damage. Please giving me my HP?
No, I was just I 'cause I didn't know how much it had left.
Yeah. That's fair, that's fair,
that's. Fair, a pack and a starly.
Why not 16? That definitely hits.
Get your damage in there. One shot.
Could it be? No, I don't think it can.
OK, you know what? That's so, I don't think.
That's a pretty good. Hit though, we take those bird V
bird. Blueberry swoops in, gives a
good old beak smash to Starley, takes out a chunk of its health.
Starley, it was a little dazed, a little confused.
Starley is going to go for Led Zeppelin.
Reference Blueberry. Let's go.
Me making a Led Zeppelin. Reference.
Yeah, you know, Richie, very nice for his Led Zeppelin, Our
quickest. Well, he's coming.
Hey, listen, he likes it. Yeah.
I do, it's true. I was a big classic rock guy in
in high school. I love classic rock.
I still do, but I don't like listen to it anymore.
But the song comes on, I'm jamming pretty beat up, pretty
banged up. That's another turn.
You have two turns left of acid armor and.
You and my mom would get along great.
For classic rock reasons, OK. Yeah.
I think I have one. I'm a tiny bit of a vinyl
collector and I think I've won classic rock album.
It's Led Zeppelin 4. I think it's on it's last legs
or it's last talons. My dad collects finals hell.
Yeah, victory. It's not like a real collection.
I probably have like two dozen. It has which isn't like huge,
but it's fun. I.
Wish I got into vinyl or it's a fury attack.
It's just so expensive. It's expensive.
I I really value one album art is so cool to have as like
actual physical art cabbage and two, I recently got like a nice
record player and it sounds really good.
It's like the you can hear things that you've never heard
on the MP3. It's really cool.
And the analog versus digital? Totally just file size.
You know, having a literal gigantic file makes a big
difference. Cabbage.
We got to go on the drain and kiss.
That is a. 19 That will connect How does cabbage KO starly?
Oh gosh, we've I've killed so many Pokémon with with with
Cabbage's kisses. This one's.
Going to be it's killed so many I don't know.
I don't know what it's always draining piss.
It's always cabbage with the draining.
It was always, yeah. And honestly, does she have
another attack at this point? Really get knocked out?
She's just like, you know what? I'll stop.
Fighting, she might have had tackle, that might have been it,
yeah, Miles says. Which like at that point why
would I use tackle if I've got draining kiss?
Exactly says Congrats, you completed your first part of the
challenge. How did it feel?
Very nerve wracking. We barely did it, but we did in
fact do it. You did in fact do that.
In fact, let me let me give you a little something.
And he reaches into his pocket and gives you 10 pokey dollars.
Sick I can get paid for this. He says absolutely.
Yo, you guys are getting paid for this so it.
Gives you. Potions just enough.
To I just had a vision of like a winner's interview, like from a
sports event, and they're just like, I don't, he says.
Nice. And they're like.
Wait, I'm getting paid for this? And he gestures.
I signed a contract. And you find yourself in a very
large room. It seems like this is more or
less the end. Just blacked out of that whole
process. Yeah, I was just playing a game
that's great. Little bird.
Pokémon flying all over the place.
You catch your eyes. I'm not sure that has a little
did. I don't know how it's supposed
to write with that. The Packo never like battled a
random and got money from it, did they?
This one, he's got a little ponytail.
It's always in the gyms, right? And he.
Walks. No, I don't think so.
Yeah, we didn't. Like we never.
We never demanded money from strangers.
Yeah, that was a world building element.
I chose not to push too hard. Yeah, it doesn't really make
sense, not. Really it's just a means of you
getting actual income right? Like it's a gimmery.
Scales and a big old smile. Fair.
Like money wasn't a huge thing throughout the campaign.
Not really. I mean, it wasn't.
Yeah, but we're gonna go with it wasn't.
During the like so I'll. Tell you how this goes.
Not something we worried about every session.
Yeah, there. Are 6.
Rings that your Pokémon Blueberry has supplied.
That's pretty typical with if you managed to get through all
these RPGs, at least the ones I've played trainer before I do.
Is that like early on maybe it's a struggle and then eventually
like you do one look before you, you hit one milestone and then
you're just loaded like use that?
Yeah, well, it's just it never should be that important.
Like you should have some kind of limitation, but it shouldn't
ever feel like you hold back your players 'cause you're just
like, bro, and then 'cause then you're just like, oh, let's do
side jobs during our downtime. It's like, it feels like you're
just putting a hat on a hat. Like you didn't have to solve
this problem. We'll deal with.
That yeah, I've definitely had like himmates before where like,
yeah, it's just been like monetarily, like guided missions
where it's just like, oh, we're just doing this to get money.
And it's way less fun because it's like, why is that my
motivation? Like, yeah, I'd rather have it
be something emotional, right? Designed to slow Yama down.
Dan says, you know, now that you say that, I think if I could,
you know, rewrite things, talking about the unceremonious
nature of nine tails of evolution.
What if instead there was like a mini dungeon or something and I
was like, oh, rumor has it there's like a Firestone like in
this little. Yeah.
Yeah, that would be. Sick.
That would be cool. And then?
All of a sudden that just feels like.
It wasn't available at a store. Absolutely.
Think about stuff like that instead of like, yeah, like gym
challenges or something. Yeah for like solo adventures.
Yeah, on. Your turn.
Oh, thank you. I see.
We're saying yeah, 30. Feet, yeah.
Totally, totally in any direction you got to dash for an
additional 30 feet or you can attack as an option as well.
Or yeah, cuz like in the same way that buying the Firestone
felt unceremonious. If you're playing D&D and you
like, there's a six sword and you just buy it, it's like,
cool, I got it. But it's also like, it would
have been nicer if it was like dropped from a boss or
something, you know, enhance. Would have felt different.
Oh, this is very exciting. I think for this first one I'm
just going to have blueberry fly and icing.
Yeah, you can do whatever you want.
And I'm going to have Blueberry sing you're.
Going to have blueberry sing for what reason?
What are you attempting to do to try?
And make. The opposing Yama fall asleep.
Excellent. That.
I. Figured move.
I'm trying to use the move sleep as it is or sing as it is
described please or something. No.
That's a fair question because I feel like I do a lot of time use
moves for flavor reasons or yeah, for some reason.
Let me see if that's gonna affect.
This. Actually, I don't know, I like
doing creative stuff like that. Definitely.
And I think that's kind of the whole point of like, why this?
Format is like yeah. Versus.
Just playing the video game. It's cuz we can't do shit right.
Exactly right. So it's kind of flicker
enjoyment. It's.
The almost turn on yon must turn you can see that a blue energy
courses through its body and it kind of sparks in excitement and
it seems like it's a little bit more agile now despite the
imagine if in the 2021 instead of starting to AD and D table I
was like wait y'all should click my link for poke MMO we'll all
play this together. Near the ring.
Oh God. And then we and.
Then we played it for four. Years.
Could you imagine? That would.
Look the MMO for four. 30 feet and do a thing again.
OK A2, I tried that shit when I was like 15 and I hated it so I
was like I doubt it's any better now.
It's perched on the. Second ring it's not and
someone. Tried to make.
M10 the thing and that didn't work out either.
It's exactly an 11 which is the DC needed, Tim.
Tim had some ideas that I liked. Oh definitely.
It did have some really cool ideas.
It's just like it didn't have anything to keep itself up, like
the strength of the IP to like keep the game going towards the
end game. The PowerPoints just being one
bar instead of like per move. He manages to get a dirty 20.
Like because why am I ever going to need 30 protects, right?
Yeah, sure. And then?
But then it's like another economy to manage.
Exactly the same as Blueberry's current movement.
And they made that cute as Platypus.
That's the real wind about 1/4 of the way through the quarter.
And the Otama seems to be speeding up even more.
Go for an astonished 11. 11 doesn't either, does not
connect, does not flinch. Blueberry attempts a a startling
shout at Yanma and Yanma is not fazed.
In fact, how do you guys picture astonish?
He's going to just simply the newer game animation suggests to
me that that it's like a it's a face faster.
Yeah, like he's sticking out his tongue.
Yeah, low balls to catch him off car.
Yeah. That's such a sick flavour for a
low power ghost move. Really glad that they did that.
Oh it makes sense that like a a low power ghosty guy would would
do that trying to scare you like a little Boo.
Yeah, a battle head. OK, 10 points of flying type
damage into blueberry as blades of air Ching Ching, ching Ching.
Just slice blueberry. What's?
Blueberry. Is that me?
Am I going? Yeah.
Yeah, you're seeing that? Yeah, that's awesome.
So that I did that. Is that like something outside?
What's going on? But like, how would I do that?
I would never do that that. I had.
Yeah, totally. Blueberry's name is in fact
blueberry, and Yama loves blueberries.
And maybe if blueberry is very careful, it can make part of its
fluffy wings look like a Bush of blueberries.
I don't know that. Would be really fun and cool.
Yeah, I know that's you're so right.
Yeah. Yeah, you're right.
I'm just. Thinking there.
That's crazy. But.
This is collaboration, gamers this.
Yeah, it's yeah. I don't know.
Afterwards, it's like I felt that with everyone.
Being. I don't know dude.
I'm just, I'm just throwing stuff out there. 19.
Geez, Yeah. Yama turns around, and with its
compound eyes, it doesn't get, like, totally clear images of
what's happening, but it sees the texture of blueberry's
fluffy wings combined with the color of blueberry's body.
And it looks over and it thinks, are are those blueberries?
And it zooms over and starts to gently nibble on blueberry's.
It's awesome. So it's lost.
That's so crazy that that worked.
I mean, to be fair, birds are. No, birds aren't color blind,
right? Yamas and colors.
Wait. This isn't it was a Yamas is a
bug. Oh.
OK, no that checks out then that could work what I wanted and is
going to not like I need to justify it. 35.
Feet. Oh yeah, yeah, MO's a bug.
This all makes sense now. Yeah, of course that makes
sense. Now I understand because.
Now I get rising. Rings.
It'll turn around and fire off another Air Slash towards
Blueberry. OK, this Air Slash misses,
ricochets off of the rings, and does not connect with Blueberry.
Blueberry, what you going to do? I know that, as we've mentioned,
Swablu do like sitting on Pokémon's head or people's
heads, and I can imagine Pokémon's heads as well.
OK. Where you going with this?
I was going to say that Blueberry was going to try and
hitch a ride on Yanma, but I feel like maybe it would be more
effective to go bounce on his head and shoot off.
I'm down for you to try whichever you prefer.
I'll I'll be real with you. I'll keep the checks the same,
so if one is more flavorful like just just go for it.
Yeah, I I feel like the like getting extra momentum 1 might
be more. OK, you would, would you
describe how how that works, how that looks, how that would work?
You could just roll 1st and I could determine how you describe
it. Sure, let's do that.
We'll. Say if you're just going to go
for a bounce, maybe just like a strength or dex check. 11.
Is there any modifier there? Yeah, I did add the modifier.
OK, Yana sees Blueberry iron and being like hold on, what's the
plan here, and Blueberry comes over and plants its talons on
Yama's back in an attempt to get a little leverage.
Yama's like Nah you ain't doing that, but manages to get grabbed
a little bit. Blueberry manages to gain an
extra 5 feet of movement, not much but just a little bit and
Yama is a little disoriented this turn.
You hear a Ding Ding as Blueberry passes through the two
of the last three rings and is just five feet before the last
one. It's blue.
Sparky speed boost powers goes to dash past Blueberry through
the last ring and you hear Ding Ding as it does that and it
starts to loop back around. It is now side by side.
The blue races are kind of tricky in D&D.
And we're just gonna. Something OK goes that could be.
Fun. To explore is.
Change a constant pacing even though it's turn based so it's
hard to portray. Yeah, exactly.
That. Conceptually.
Call Cthulhu has a mechanic called the Chase which is
basically just that. It's like I.
Was gonna say there's chase rules.
Aren't there? Yeah, yeah, it's gonna.
Go well, Chase. It's like every everyone tries
to do it and it never feels right, never feels.
Compressive. It's hard to do in a tabletop
setting for sure. I got a three, yeah.
There's probably something to take from like a more game as
far as like movement challenges go, yeah.
Natural. Yama got a natural I think I've
definitely thought about, just haven't quite correct yet.
Plus one strength. Yes.
Oh wow, this is a really tough grapple.
Neither of these Pokémon are very strong at all, but they
both kind of tumble down onto the ground and Yama gets a
little little head start as it tries to make its way back.
If it gets a complete movement of 30 feet by the end of its
next turn, it will win. How far am I from the end?
You're 55 feet from the end. Right now.
Yeah, currently SO. I can just do that, yeah.
You can just do that. No, no funny business.
Am I? Unless you want to I.
Can I just dash? Win.
So I can just win. I think.
I think I had something similar in my.
Yeah. Can I just go?
Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
Because they can't move, so I'm just going to zip past them
because that's a derpiest racing.
Not. Like a new bashing was a
mechanic until Richie explained it this gym.
Oh yeah, yeah, that's fair. If you aren't familiar, you know
what, one change could have just made this infinitely more
interesting, I think is you can. It can still be race based but
do like capture the flag and like retrieve it.
Like go far and get it and then bring it back.
That already makes it. Like more interesting, I feel
like, right, Because then it's like, oh, you could grab the
flag like. Yeah, or you can like fight and
stuff like you're more encouraged to fight.
I don't know, right. And it's a.
Blue and green. But I think the turn based
system is realistic to how in racing movies like the
protagonist just decides to go faster.
Yeah, yeah. That's.
Awesome, I have to win this you. Know I.
Don't think, wait I. Have to go faster.
How else can you like flavor it? You know, it's just like right
in a moment apparel. I go faster.
That's the only way you can do it.
I know what grace is a good to know.
OK. No, that's awesome.
That's a shiny animal. That's pretty cool.
He says yeah thanks and gives a little scratch on the head.
Anyways, Ben escort to you not through a door but up a
staircase. It seems you are ascending
towards the top of the Four Tree City gym.
You can see all around you on the other side of the rails of
the stairs are just big giant white pipes that go vertically
up. And at the top end of the pipes,
or these poles, I suppose is a better description.
You can see in the distance, propeller blades spinning,
collecting wind energy from through a hole in the ceiling.
Standing before you on a platform is a young woman
trainer. She has short brown hair and big
old glasses. And she says, hi, welcome.
You've come so far. Yeah.
Did anyone pick up that this was a nod to Gabby at the time?
He says, excellent. Hopefully you.
Take. I don't think so.
Just. As seriously those other ones
that's my name is Gabriella and today we'll be giving you.
The I absolutely should have. It's like now, I didn't know
that until right now. Oh really?
I thought we talked to the you're.
So dumb. Oh, no, no, no.
Yeah, because you know, her Metro tournaments and stuff.
It's. Going to be fun, Yeah.
Oh yeah, I think we did discuss that, yeah.
If it was clefairy, so much more sense, yeah.
If it was. Clefairy you guys would have
totally gotten it, but it doesn't fit the gym flavor so.
No. Yeah, I thought Toga took.
His perfect I did win that tournament.
You're right, the clefairy with wings definitely it's better so
it looks like. A battle you didn't.
Want the most viewed clips on just have to battle it.
Twitch is need to last me streaming 1 of it and it was a
cabbage gets to. Go first.
What does cabbage want to do? I'm.
Gonna go. What am I trying to say?
Misty explosion? It was misty explosion, turn
one. Yeah.
Yeah, there there was like AI remember during that tournament
there was like a whole thing where like self destruct, misty
explosion, explosion were like constantly used.
Yeah, yeah, Wiggles its. Finger.
That shit is so fun. Sometimes you're just in the
mood to hit metronome. I'm.
Scared, but also. Excited.
Did you get a prize grace for winning?
This is a weird one to. Describe I think I got to choose
the which charity she donated her revenue that month.
Oh, that's awesome. Which I chose the Trevor Pajo I
didn't think. Yeah.
Classic just doesn't seem to successfully be Oh yeah, to chip
away at Cabbage's. That was cool up.
Next, clearly it's a skill based win for sure.
Right, yeah, I'm very skilled at look, he said.
I just have to survive. I don't have to fight.
Yes, let's go for an Astana. I remember I got like a 17.
I got a specific clefairy for that.
I caught one in a master ball and then I put it through the
ORS contest so it could get like a funny ribbon up here with the
gorgeous Royal, maybe something like that.
I don't know how much damage is. That, that's cute.
Yeah, I went all out for that. Clefairy, I think it's.
A little chunk of. I might have just used the
rental fairy, I don't remember. Yeah, that's fair.
Certainly use the rental. It's.
Cabbage's turn again. We're gonna I think you made a
rental of yours then I used your rental so.
Yeah, that checks out. Cabbage.
And blueberry we get to add one D4 to any savings.
That's right, That's right. Per minute.
OK, as you might have guessed, Togatec once again wiggles its
finger. You witness as out of the tip of
Togatec's finger fires insect webbing that is electrified.
It's. It's going to attempt to hit.
Thank you for answering it. Grace don't like it's cabbage,
which is good because it won't be super effective.
Cabbage is going to take. Right. 9 points of electric
damage. As funny as like vague
explaining creatures and moves is, sometimes I kind of feel
like it's necessary for like just for description for one,
but also just like for drama, like you kind of not break the
armor in suspense it. Is good for drama.
You have to be, and it makes you feel smarter to guess it.
Well, like even in like standard D&D, like in describing spells
and stuff, like if you just say, yeah, that's fireball and you
don't like describe the fire, then like it's kind of boring,
you know, I don't know if cabbage gets to do.
Something right having like a unique magic is cool so it yeah
so OK so yeah so I have advantage to hit it to your.
Ticket predictably, then go for the finger wiggle.
Oh, from the tip of Togekiss's finger wiggle forms what one
might just I said Togekiss, it's Togetic.
Oops. And fires it towards Blueberry.
Man don't leave the connect it involved mid battle.
Yeah, just to punish. No.
That. That that hits.
OK, incoming ice ball. How many times is it going to
hit the maximum number of times? No.
No oh I did that mechanic incorrectly incoming a series.
I treated it like rock blast. It should have been roll out
dealing overall 20. Oh yeah, of.
Ice damage, OK. Well, all right, rerun the whole
campaign. Yeah, we got to.
Start. Yeah, let's we got a.
Recon. We got to go back.
Yeah, changes everything actually.
Yeah, I don't think I would have played the same after that.
That was different. Actually, if that was ice ball
and like Togatek didn't miss, I think you get your ass beat
here. I think you just lose because
there's no more metronome and ice ball just get stronger so.
Well, all right, don't run it back.
The result was great. Yeah, we preferred this result.
Yeah, actually this was the better result all.
No. What's cabbage going to do?
IMO should be replayed training. Kids.
I mean, we might as well. Maybe we can heal up some
damage. Spirit of the Game.
Yeah, nobody get that mean. OK, that.
I didn't get no I don't 8 it. Was a Smash Bros thing, so that.
Is 6 I see. I'm surprised the listener
hasn't caught that yet. That ice ball was somewhat done
wrong that while it has a chunky.
Not like it's wrong, it's like homebrew, but still.
Right. I mean, it's homebrew, so it's
like it's whatever you want it to be, yeah.
It's also been a gym challenge which get like significantly
less views than the main campaign.
That too, yeah, the two large boulders, that intent.
And the fourth one was like, I'm listening to the 4th battle
against these Pokémon. Yeah, I tried.
To randomize it if I remember correctly, like the order that
they. Released.
Yeah. I mean, I think they were
different enough, but I couldn't understand if somebody wanted to
like round. Like yadda yadda yadda.
What were the results? Yeah, No, totally.
Yeah, this is exactly the kind of thing that like is more
selfish for us as the table than it is for the listeners.
Because like I wanted to do gym challenges and it's fun for
everyone to get their own thing. But as far as the listener
experience, it is definitely more tedious.
Nope, it's true. But we always remember that we
didn't make it for people to listen.
To Yep, originally, Yep, Yep, Yep.
We still don't cabbage tongue. It's definitely something we
consider a little bit more but. We do think about it a little.
Bit more. At the end of the day, it's just
yeah, right, sorry. It's our game 16.
Yeah, that just meets the armor class of Togatek. 10/10. 10
Togatek. 'S looking a little rough.
Ten. Yeah, I was gonna say a lot.
Of we're. PD of results between the two of
us. I I usually confirm it just
because I want to say it to like but like going back and forth so
many times it's kind of funny showing.
Some mercy and. It doesn't show mercy.
Togotick wiggles its finger and you can see that it becomes
completely imbued with a sharp purple poisonous energy.
Goes for a slicing cross. Poison into cabbage.
Oh damn. Not cabbage and rolls.
Yeah, that's OK. Yeah, cabbage.
Yikes. Togatek not very comfortable
with the poison itself, just whips the attack completely.
Cabbage Fairy's actually so crazy defensively.
Togatek didn't. I often forget about it, but
it's like, it's like water but better, which is crazy cuz
water's already so good. Poison that was just on it.
Blueberry What are you gonna do? Imagine having two weaknesses
and an immunity, and then just a resistance on top of damage.
And you know, that's something. Togatek takes a little bit of
damage. So I like Terra Fairy is one of
the most common terrorists I have.
It's insane. OK, Seven.
They should have made a week to bug.
They would have balanced it. Yeah, you're getting all.
These good rules now dude. Bug gets shafted at every
opportunity. Yeah, so sad.
Eight. Damn.
It I'm waiting for like the Cali RX ice rider of bug types as
another. Kiss comes through.
Yeah, it's overdue, isn't it for HP?
That might have been scissor for a while but going to go for the
finger. With yeah, is it?
Going to get something. Crazy.
Only week to fire. That's pretty good, yeah.
I think box legendary's next Gen. should be bugs.
Yeah, and a double bug would be crazy.
With different secondary types, that'd be so sick.
Yeah, I'm super on board with the.
Game Freak, if you're listening, they.
Definitely are listening. Call call my line.
The suit is a top fan. Yeah, I you have my number.
You have my number, Yeah, Yeah. You know my yeah.
Shadow Realm. Now they could get my numbers.
Ishihara's in my bed right now. Oh.
Yeah. You know, you know how it is.
Well, can I just? Yeah, we do, and we're aware.
Yeah, I know exactly how it is. Do we have bug legendaries?
Just Jenna sect right? That's a mythical.
Question with blueberry would do for that if you count ultra bees
feathery arms. Ultra VS Oh Ultra.
VS true. I don't know if they count, but
kind of. Good.
And then and then the question is paradox.
Yeah, description was that and then make you roll for it.
But that's fine. That's just Slytherin, right?
OK, Toga Tick is just not here, Toby.
Slytherin. Oh yeah, I guess the yeah, I'm
gonna go just fire poison, right?
Yeah, true. Yeah, cuz.
It doesn't. I can't attack anything and I've
used up all my other fun moves. So yeah, we're gonna give
Blueberry that D6. And they're all bug fighting.
Yeah, every single one. The ultra reason?
Yeah. Yeah, it's just Genesect that
isn't. That's crazy.
Wow, quite the revelation we've come to today, chat.
It's one of its future. Actions.
Can I get a bug fighting? Oh, blueberry.
Obviously blueberry. OK.
Yeah, it's like, oh, we're going to do boxed cherries.
One of them's going to be bug fighting and the other one.
Bug fighting Bug fighting. Bug psychic please.
Great, that's my head cannon sends.
From the ether and. Go.
I think that'd be sick. Yeah, that'd be cool.
And unlike the video games, this doesn't always hit.
However, I. Was about to be like, do we have
a psychic box legendary And then I remember.
It would be. A Yeah, we have a a few Lunala.
Oh oh. And ultra necrosma, yeah.
You walking. In Hi everyone.
A. Big fan A.
MEW 2 that's not box legendary. Legendary.
Like Dragons on the boxes that
he. Wears you.
Never seen those before dude. Oh cool.
What? What other types?
Have there not been box legendaries?
I'm looking. At most of them, yeah.
I can't be most of them. Restricted specifically or on
box specifically? I think.
I think box box. Only I don't.
Think is my ice criteria definitely.
Hasn't had one. Ice, Kieran.
Well, do you count last? Year though on box, yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh yeah, Kieran.
Grass, right? Grass.
Yeah, for sure. Leaf green.
Poison. Definitely no poison.
Oh well, not. We said on a box.
We. Said on a box.
The last one the grass has been on a box guy.
There might be one of every type fits on a box.
I will say OK not. Bug.
So not bug. Bug dude.
Perfect. Every time.
What about poison? If it'd have to be Venusaur,
otherwise no. It'll be Venusaur again, yeah.
Yeah. And then to these are really
carrying the type distribution on the boxes.
Venusaur, what the fuck hold? It down that.
Phantom Force, I don't really know about that one.
I kind of. Wasted some time.
See I'm just like 4 like like DLCS.
Do the box legendaries count for that also?
Gives. You Is there rock?
No Rock. No.
Goats can't. Think of one No rock.
No rock. You've completed the three
challenge. Ghost Lunala.
Thank you. Yeah, Ghost of Lunalia.
Normal. Marches up the stairs.
OK, Yeah. Oh well, Evie, Evie, Evie.
Nevermind. Nevermind.
Which? I guess then also electric with
Pikachu then too, because otherwise I don't have the
piece. Yeah, and Zac ROM and also Zac
ROM, Yeah. The view is incredible.
Don't worry if we forget jungle a bunch of poke models electric.
Guns. Listen, I don't remember any box
Pokémon, OK? Oh God, in the ocean.
To the West you see a mountain that is, yeah, the box poke.
There's actually spoilers. So I close my eyes when I buy
the game and then I don't look. Into it is Winona can't see you
box legendary it has been. For quite a while.
She is wearing box Legendary. Oh, they can't hurt you.
Yeah, Dragon is definitely the most represented, but fairies
pretty well represented too. Yeah, as soon as it came out, it
was just like, how about this stupid deer?
How? About how about we're all just
fucking fairies, I guess. And to begin.
This challenge I'll have to ask what you mean.
Do you intend? Are you still talking about box
legends? How?
Long is 2 again. Yeah, because.
I think it is Jeff Cernius for Box Legends, yeah.
Zashon. Zashon or no?
Zashon, yeah. Yeah, you know, to to be fair,
for like as long as they've existed, 2 is a lot actually,
so. That's right.
That's kind of my funny. Gen. 6 and two of them have been
boxed on Jerry's Crazy 2. A very proud looking larger form
of tape. Just because I tried to get away
from like Dragons and three after 6.
Yeah. They haven't touched dragon
since right? Well done.
Right on and right on, Yeah. Oh, until they came back, I
know. You haven't played this game,
but they are there. They are very.
They are. They are there.
Apparently they are. I'll go with the friend of
Blueberry. With the.
Ultimate Recycles. Yes.
Excellent, Winona recalls 2 of her Pokémon.
Friend of Blueberry sounds like a gay euphemism.
Is he a friend of Blueberry I? Was thinking it sounded like a
Beatles song. It's like this.
It's the password. Should have named him Dorothy.
It's like, yeah. Is he a friend of Dorothy?
It's how you get into a Speakeasy.
It's like I'm a friend of Blueberry.
I like it 'cause it's like a blueberry is a fruit, so flaps
its wings vigorously. That's fucking sick.
You really nailed that. Actually dope, Yeah.
Of electricity. And arcane energy flows through
its body, and it seems that it is a dragon that has done a
dance. It is now BB's turn.
Whoa, why not? OK, always got.
To. Get a dragon that's done a
dance, Altaria. I picked up that one description
thing. From.
From Drew from boarding party for sure.
Ending a description with just a funny incredible using the
literal words. Definitely 9. 9 Altaria I love a
dragon. Starts dancing.
You do that. I wonder what move?
The heat is now over. Like shit like that, you know,
It's just targeting. Very fun to do.
The seeds are leeching, you know there.
Is such a. Thing.
As double disadvantage, the kiss is straining.
Yes, yeah, shit like that, OK. It's so crazy the kiss is
straining. It's fun.
It's fun to say. Yeah, I guess if it woke up too
it wouldn't be a waste. The whole is hyperspace.
Don't take it, don't take it too far.
Grace life, A Little Dream, despite the fact that like blue
arcane sparks are flying off of it.
It's it's happened. A good little snooze.
The family voice would be a bad choice right now.
Let's go for it and Astonish. OK, roll it.
So I get advantage, right? Yes, you can roll three times in
fact. 22 What was? The natural.
They're natural. With making me laugh because
hyperspace hole remind me of Rich's favorite euphemism
pattern. Unless I have a start in my
body. She's a Stelly hole.
Yeah, yeah, definitely. I think it's like she I got to
wait on. I got to think on it.
Hold on. OK.
I'll be waiting here. Springs back up into the air.
However, it's. Still I I feel like space on my
hole till I'm hyper is pretty good.
But yeah, that's. Next turn.
Something like that. No2 cabbages.
It's definitely got to be on the hole.
Yeah, it's. On the hole and I like I like
till I'm hyper but space doesn't make as much sense.
Super effective. Super.
Effective. The perfect versions of those
jokes are when, like, it lines up in order.
That's like when you really know you've made it.
Yeah, that's true. Like the Ebenezer Scrooge one.
That's the best one for sure. Yeah.
That's a real good one. She's squawk on my belly till I
wipe the image. Oh, oh, that's not the.
First one, I've said that one, it's OK.
No, that's not the. I just forgot it, I guess.
That's a pretty good one. Yes.
Altario swoops in and deals an aerial A strike to cabbage.
It will also take poison damage from acid armor.
How much was that again? It's AD 6 worth.
Yes. Acid armor dealing poison
damage. Yeah, that's something that's
kind of cool. Manages to.
Acid. Yeah, I like that.
That's awesome. Allow.
Thanks for doing that. Yeah, you're welcome.
Thanks for. The the kind of the Thorn male
vibe, you boost your defense, but also like you get the Rocky
helmet. Yeah, that's neat.
Blueberry with that's a mechanic in Xenoblade, yeah, disarming
called Spike, OK. Super effective.
Roll it. That is a 10.
That's awesome, that. Was just as good as the draining
case. Yeah.
Seriously, that's kind of crazy. Blueberries popping off.
Yeah, blueberries, for the last time in his life.
Look. At a shouting today.
And then he went in the. Box, Yeah.
Right, Yeah, I love them. There is no there is great to a
disarming. Show that we never saw and.
Then we never saw him again. A lots of.
Fairy type. Damage.
Listen, somebody has to keep the box company right?
Another draining. Kit Pokémon have to go in the
box. There's we can.
Always right? Like something has to break
Altario. 'S armor class Cabbage goes in
for the kiss and flies directly into Altario's floof and just
can't get a it's it's kisser on Altaria's body and just nothing
happens. Can't give that old smooch.
In anticipation of shenanigans, Altaria focuses its mind and
creates A barrier around itself that will protect it from
certain types of attacks. That is its turn.
That was safeguard, right? Has to be.
Yeah, we're just going to go. For a I'm assuming it was
safeguard. It should have.
Yeah. It should have been reflect in
light screen. Atari is a little guarded a
little more safely now. Yeah, yeah, you're in the end
now. That's all it takes.
God I didn't know. Studied from the best.
The blast seems quite Eldridge. This ball is made of fire, yeah.
That's all it takes. 17. That does meet the armoured
class of Ataria. Deal your damage. 13 She fire on
my ball till I ask how large the room is.
Yeah, yeah. That's pretty good.
That's yeah. Incredible gout of the blue.
Way to go. That always.
Is the follow. Up.
You know it's perfect. How do you serve for it?
How do you serve? I didn't ask how big the room
was. I said I guess fireball that
will. Not.
Save you That's a from this 25 minute.
Dragon Breath. 1 twice in a row. Oh my God the minimum damage
from this dragon dance. Dragon breath is still 9 damage,
but you got very lucky with two minerals.
Something about an Altario attacking the swab loop.
Altario just has to hold back a little bit.
It's just like, no, that was me one day.
Can't, can't. Yeah, one day I.
Remember when I was a little lad?
Have you watched? Don't We all?
Every time I'm fighting like a small boy I'm like fuck every.
Time. Every.
Damn time I'm. Like that was me.
I was getting beat up by a girl. Man Blue Bear retaliate Exactly.
A moment of humanity, it's nostalgic, is just going to go.
Hurt people, hurt people. You know the.
Classic you've. Got to.
You guys are fucked up. I love hurt people, so I beat
up. No the.
First, people, it's a. Size in like half an hour.
No apologizing for being the voice of reason.
Yeah. That's good stuff guys.
Good job. It's it's honestly really good
that you stopped that because I think he was going to do it.
Yeah. I was like trying to track what
a child. For the guys I'm going to die,
that's. Like they're just lucky I'm out
of school. I'm in the mood.
The school. Oh no.
Oh God. Oh my God.
Intending gotta breathe. That's what's all about baby
time. Into blueberry.
And that's the trick with it. People thought that summer was
unleashed because it was like, Oh yeah, it's so like, the kids
can go work on farms and stuff. And we just kept the tradition.
No, it's because the teachers will like get ravenous and start
fighting the children. In.
The schools if they don't let them out before summer hits.
Summer solstice. They all just swim in the
monsters. Summer solstice.
Yeah, it's actually, yeah, just you.
It's. Called action the teachers.
Novel. It's it's, it's biological.
Guys, it's natural. Yeah.
It's just a normal thing. I don't know why everyone's make
it a big deal. Longest day of the year, you got
to fight some kids. I think yeah, I might have if I
didn't. Took the part specifically for
children. Not like four children, but like
to beat up children. No, that should get.
Some no. To the children, yeah.
Right. If you don't do it, then the
summer solstice doesn't happen and the days just keep getting
longer. Cabbage.
No, actually. Finish this for.
Sure. What about the harvest?
Sacrifice and children just sold the sun good yeah exactly
harvest see and that's. World building guys.
Now we've made a new. Phase.
Yeah, and this isn't what now, Yeah.
We love time campaign too. We want it just now.
Yeah, you guys get better, get ready, 'cause this is, this is.
Something that's going to happen?
What's the method here? What's the angle?
So the angle of this particular draining kiss, Let's see a
little a little bit of a a, a dancing.
And I'm so sorry for asking you for so many KISS descriptions
when the move is so literal. Yeah, it's like it's.
What it is, man, It's. Just Pokémon I.
Made details How do you kiss like?
I don't know. I guess I don't know with tongue
write. That down.
Write that down. Write that down.
Yeah, I was actually just asking for kissing advice.
It's just secretly because I've never kissed someone right at
the end of the song. Because you're really in more
detail on the business. Yeah, Showstopper.
Oh is that how they kiss? Huh, interesting.
How does kissing work? I need to find out from these
Pokémon on Pokémon. Yeah, somebody found out about
kissing for the first time listening to this podcast.
Wait. People do.
I'm not surprised with how young these kids are.
That's true. That's true.
Somebody commented. It's like, oh, this, this last
episode aired when I graduated high school and this whole thing
was like, yeah, my whole high school.
I'm like hello. Yeah.
Oh no. We raised a child, guys.
Oh no, we raised a. Child.
Now we have. To be crazy but like it was.
Pretty messed up with Liz. Like we can't keep going.
No, Liz is perfect. Liz is.
Perfect. Yeah, Liz turned out perfect.
Fuck you. My child is completely fine.
Can't cook. I think that's the only thing
about Liz is there. We didn't give them any.
Culinary skills? No.
They bought a rice cure and that's all you need.
I will. I'll ask so I have some friends.
Who that's that is where we messed up like Liz can't cook.
That's horrible. But you.
Know wow in a colour of Liz and they were just streaming
themselves and they're like how do you know when water is
boiling Oh. My God, because.
It's. So here's the thing.
Because that it does a thing. Called boil these challenges,
yeah. That's crazy.
Yeah, well, what? They were all very impressive in
their own way. However, they all did very well
and they but yeah, like I, I saw that comment.
Never boiled water. On the finale, and I was at
first I was like, that's impossible.
I was like, no, we played for four years.
Like there's got to be people who started listening when they
started high school and then and when they graduated.
That's just. It has to be how it works.
There has to be at least one. Chatting, yeah, and there's
definitely at least. One we found the little.
Triangle. Discussion about.
How their challenge went? Is there anything you'd like to
you do before you meet? Up.
That's crazy. No, I think.
I think I'm ready to meet up with them.
You strolling over to the front of the Pokémon Center, and
that's where the session ends. Oh wow.
Cliffhanger. Yeah, it's for listening to the
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Yeah. Wow, that was the final episode.
Link Wow, that was the final. 4. Three gym session.
Oh, sure, sure, sure. Definitely.
If you keep reading into it and listen to the actual original
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This is actually where we replaced Ritchie with a robot.
The real Ritchie's tied up in the basement.
Yeah. All yark and their experience.
Yeah. Yark gain access to a whole
bunch of extra dense, sparse and grandpa content.
We'll be back with the whole party on Tuesday.
We'll see you then. Yeah, we were doing weekly
releases. Yeah, this was weekly and we
were a lot of times recording like the what the Thursday
before the Tuesday it came out before we had a backlog.
I remember like when we first started.
There's a point where, like I I was still working overnight, so
I was like having to leave sessions early because I had to
go to work. Yeah.
Yeah, yeah. Remember, every week it would be
like a new day. Like we'd have to be like, oh,
like, what's the schedule like? Which day?
Yeah, I think we did a lot of Thursdays.
Thursday was our like. There was like a yeah, a while
where it was Thursdays. I remember when we recorded
Birthright because we did the the, the Cotton Eye Joe that
same weekend, because it was like Friday we did Cotton Eye
Joe and then like Sunday we did Birthright.
Yeah, yeah. That's crazy.
Big week. What?
What mean? Do that the the the art from
that one shot is still my wallpaper background.
Oh awesome. Oh, the one you did of us is the
Scooby-doo. Scooby-doo.
Yeah, Yeah. That was a fun one.
That's. A great picture.
Yeah, Yeah. That's so funny.
Anyway, thanks for listening. Any words for the listeners?
Thanks gamers. Continued support, yes.
Are we sure that I was real with the robot and not seen?
It what robot? I don't know what you're talking
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